Rule of Law and Avoided Deforestation from Protected Areas
| Autor: | Ryan Abman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Economics and Econometrics
Matching (statistics) 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Corruption Natural resource economics Corporate governance media_common.quotation_subject Biodiversity 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Rule of law Geography Set-aside Deforestation Property rights 0105 earth and related environmental sciences General Environmental Science media_common |
| Zdroj: | Ecological Economics. 146:282-289 |
| ISSN: | 0921-8009 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.11.004 |
| Popis: | Global efforts to protect biodiversity and slow deforestation rely heavily on the establishment of protected areas; land set aside that cannot be deforested or developed. This paper studies the macro-level relationship between rule of law and variation in avoided deforestation from protected areas. Using recent global satellite data from 2000 to 2012, I estimate the country-level avoided deforestation of protected areas established in this period via nearest-neighbor matching. I then use weighted least-squares regressions to explain country-level variation in estimated avoided deforestation as a function of a country’s governance characteristics as well as other country-level controls. Across 71 countries in this study period, protected areas were more effective in countries with higher levels of corruption control and protection of property rights, protected areas were more effective in more democratic countries, and there appears to be no relationship between political stability and avoided deforestation from protected areas. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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